I’m convinced people can become psychopaths, which I see as simply losing interest or faith in the simple, obvious, pragmatic good, after making seemingly innocuous choices, like being lazy, until their mind loses contact with value from lack of investment in value. 
And because everything is exponential, they drift towards entropic, less useful, less meaningful pleasures until their hearts and vision are so small, they delight in totally useless behaviors like those we call “psychopathic”.


On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 2:46 PM Henriques, Gregg - henriqgx <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

I think that would be extreme 😊. Consider, for example, there are sadistic psychopaths…

 

But we can say that the Freudian filter is deeply tied to self-deception, and that is one of the core features that allows human to “do evil” (to borrow a phrase from TOKer Steve Quackenbush).

 

From: tree of knowledge system discussion <[log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of Jamie D
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Would it be extreme to say the Freudian filter is the root of all evil? Or, that lying to oneself is the first step down a slippery slope towards unconsciousness? 

 

 

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